Cong slams Kejriwal for leaving Delhi at a time of rain, pandemic
Darpan News Desk IANS, 01 Sep, 2021 11:58 AM
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Anil Kumar said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has deserted the city yet again, and left the people at the mercy of God to go for a 10-day Vipasana meditation in Jaipur.
He said that even two hours of monsoon rain completely submerged the Capital, creating long traffic snarls lasting hours, so much so that at Lodhi Road in the heart of Delhi people had to use a boat to cross the flooded streets.
Addressing a press conference at the DPCC office Rajiv Bhawan here on Wednesday, Anil Kumar said that Kejriwal has gone for a 10-day Vipasana meditation when his presence was most needed in the Capital due to the disturbed law and order situation and the monsoon rain creating havoc across the national capital.
He said that official sources say at least six rapes take place in Delhi every day, with very few such incidents coming to light as poor girls are generally the victims. This has become a matter of grave concern with rapes of poor minor girls and assaults and attacks on women becoming a recurring feature.
He alleged that people in Delhi are battered by unemployment, skyrocketing prices, worsening law and order situation, the Rs 4000 crore corruption in the purchase and maintenance contracts for 1000 new DTC buses, monsoon water-logging woes, the deterioration of the civic infrastructure, and the crushing blows inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected every family.
He said that during the Covid lockdowns, he (Kejriwal) remained cloistered at his home for three months, from March 24 to June 18, 2021. During the second wave he confined himself at home instead of coming out to lead the Covid battle from the front, from April 4 to 18 when Covid-19 had unleashed a severe death dance, with oxygen shortage claiming the lives of several thousand people. Now with experts warning of a third wave of the Covid pandemic, the CM has given preference to his Vipasana meditation and not the lives of the people.
Anil Kumar said that installing CCTV cameras across Delhi was a major scam as it seemed to have benefited the contractors who set up the CCTV cameras, and the Aam Aadmi Party, which took kick-backs in the project, and not the people of Delhi as cameras everywhere seemed to be no deterrent for rapists, snatchers and robbers.
Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Pralhad Joshi, Anurag Thakur, Bhupender Yadav, V. Muraleedharan and Arjun Ram Meghwal held a joint press conference at the Shastri Bhavan here on Thursday and condemned the 'unruly' and 'violent' behaviour of the opposition parties led by the Congress.
Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states as well as where the party is in power as part of an alliance, including Tamil Nadu's M.K. Stalin (DMK), Maharashtra's Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena) and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren (JMM) will also be invited.
Besides, the All India Congress Committee, the Maharashtra and Mumbai verified Congress handles, that of Congress Legislative Party leader and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat, Mumbai Congress President Bhai Jagtap, state party social media head Abhijeet Sapkal, and around 500 other leaders at various level have been blocked on Twitter.
Meanwhile, the wreckage of the state roadways bus that fell into a 500 metre deep gorge following the massive landslide was recovered this morning, rescuers said.
Senior Home Ministry officials on Thursday reviewed the status of the investigations in the two rape cases in Delhi with officials of the Delhi Police. The review was done on the instructions of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the officials said.
All agencies such as the Crime Branch, Intelligence Bureau, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) unit, Harayana Police Commandos and Government Railway Police (GRP) have been placed on high alert.
